Residential College Architect Wins Driehaus Prize
Posted by R. J. O’Hara for the Collegiate Way
23 February 2004 (collegiateway.org) — The New York Times reports in its February 23rd issue that Demetri Porphyrios, “the architect and theorist whose designs include Whitman College, Princeton’s newest residential college; and the Grove Quadrangle of Magdalen College at Oxford, has been named the recipient of the $100,000 second annual Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. The prize honors a major contributor in traditional and classical architecture or historic preservation. Dr. Porphyrios, the principal of the London-based Porphyrios Associates, is to receive the accolade, administered through the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, in a ceremony on March 20 in the ballroom at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Besides the $100,000 award, the prize, endowed by Richard H. Driehaus, the founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management in Chicago, includes a bronze and stone replica of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates in Athens.â€
